Abstract

   Womanism is defined as a social theory deeply rooted in the racial and gender oppression of Black women. As time went by, this kind of theory extends to all women rather than just the Black. In this thesis, the author makes a comparison between two books: The Color Purple and The Awakening, and then elaborates on how women struggle for themselves to get rid of the racial and gender oppression. It mainly analyzes the two books through the four characteristics of womanism: anti-sexism, anti-racism, Afracentrism and Humanism in terms of the relationship between woman and nature, woman and art, woman and woman, woman and man. The author makes a detailed exploration on the four directions and indicates the importance of woman and significance to respect woman.

Key Words: womanism  The Color Purple  The Awakening

摘 要

妇女主义被定义为是一种深深植根于对黑人妇女种族和性别压迫的社会理论。随着时间的流逝，妇女主义被延伸，从原来的单指黑人妇女到全部的妇女。在论文中，作者对《紫色》和《觉醒》两本书进行比较，然后详细说明了妇女是如何为了自己而奋斗从而摆脱种族和性别的压迫。本文把视角放在妇女和自然，妇女与艺术，妇女之间和妇女与男性间的四对关系上，印证妇女主义的四大特征：反性别歧视主义，反种族主义，非洲主义和人道主义。作者详尽从四方面分析，指出女性在社会的重要性和尊重女性的重要性。

关键词：妇女主义 紫色 觉醒 

1 Introduction

In modern life, with the changing statue of woman, woman plays a more important role than before. In the past centuries, we have seen numbers of movements which were held by women and fight for woman’s unfair position. They struggled against the unequal position in life and also in policy. Just like Renaissance, the revival started because of the changing of people’s mind. In other words, the womanist literary is a clue to the movements of womanists. So if we want to know more about womanism, we have to study two representative masterworks---The Color Purple and The Awakening. By comparing The Color Purple and The Awakening, we can see the emergence and development of Womanism from different era, and diverse class. In addition, by doing this research we can reveal the significance of Womanism in the harmony between human and nature, the female creation and the completeness of human beings.